Are citizens of European countries healthier than American citizens?

Are citizens of European countries healthier than American citizens?

"Well, I've never lived in America although I have been there a few times now. And I feel that this more than qualifies me to answer this question about the good, the bad and the ugly sides of living in America and Europe!" this is a quote of a woman quoting her stance on where she'd rather live (Daisy). European citizens are healthier than American citizens, but the question is why? In Europe, the general philosophy is that everyone has to do and act the same way which promotes conformity. On the other hand, in America everyone does their own thing and they don't have to eat the same things and there are no restrictions. Maybe that's why Europeans have a higher percentage than Americans regarding everything, just because they don't allow difference among their people. People like to argue that European countries are healthier than American citizens based on the average food consumption, the birth/death rates and the illnesses people get.

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Although Europe does take the lead in many things, America still has the lead on the most reputable universities in the world. In a chart that was recently posted this last March, Harvard is still in first place closely followed by Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) but they are both still beating Oxford and Cambridge Universities (Sedghi). America still dominates with seven of their universities in the top ten and a large number of 45 in the total rankings of 100 (Sedghi). Also, in America all the professors take their job very seriously they actually to engage their students in what they are talking about and teach them interesting things and not just what they are required to. Students at the American universities meet people all over...